ScrantonPA, United States
(2005 – present)

Motionless in White are an American metalcore band from Scranton, Pennsylvania. Formed in 2005, the band members are Chris “Motionless” Cerulli (lead vocals), Ricky “Horror” Olson (rhythm guitar), Devin “Ghost” Sola (bass), Ryan Sitkowski (lead guitar), Joshua Balz (keyboards) and Brandon Richter (drums,). The band has stated that their band name is from the Eighteen Visions song, “Motionless and White”.
Motionless In White has gothic, horror themed lyrics and a gothic rock and sometimes industrial metal sound, goth appearances, and their intense gigs. Their first album, Creatures, reached #175 on the Billboard 200 on its release in 2010. Their second album, Infamous, charted in many parts in the Billboard stats: #53 on the Billboard 200, #19 on Top Rock Albums, #9 on Top Independent Albums, and #5 on Top Hard Rock Albums.

Motionless in White was founded in 2005 by members Chris Motionless, who played guitar and lead vocals, Angelo Parente on drums, Frank Polumbo on guitar, and Kyle White on bass during high school. With a sound, at the time, being influenced by alternative rock, emo and post-hardcore bands, they then changed to melodic metalcore and gothic metalcore sound.
Within the year after the release of their demo, new member Josh Balz was added as the band’s keyboardist, Frank Polumbo took over on bass and new members, Michael Costanza and TJ Bell, were added to the band as the new guitarists, moving Chris Motionless solely to lead vocals.

Seriously, you could take that exact same argument and turn it around to be about how When Love Met Destruction and Creatures are crap (they aren't, they're both great but bear with me here) since they were using an established sound (breakdown and synth heavy metalcore) that was already cemented by bands like The Devil Wears Prada and Sky Eats Airplane.

When Love Met Destruction is also a masterpiece, I find it hard to accept the same band is now almost generic and lazy, wanting to be "the next" marilyn manson or "the next " slipknot is always a bad idea because those bands exist and people don't accept they can't be as good as other bands because that "sound" is already cemented in and established, like no one can make another album like Creatures/WLMD because the same way of thinking to apply the music is different which affects the results, thats why im rightly annoyed when the original band changes style, and id happily eat up 3 more albums that were a continuation of creatures or WLMD

If you think Creatures was good go listen to the extended version of When Love Met Destruction, that was their ultimate golden days. Songs like Billy In 4C Never Saw It Coming and Whatever You Do... Don't Push The Red Button

Simply It does not matter what they play if you like it you do, if you do then you do. the band can´t bow to few fans who want it to be something that they are not. Peoples anyway these days try too much prove something to others, in otherwords actually nobody really is not right in these things but try to raise their opinion above the other. Anyhow it sort of feels like its in deep of human´s natural nature to label/to be more right than the other, sort of almost same as ignorance, they talk without knowing the whole idea but still think they are more right than the other. Anyhow I think it´s not needed to tell more.

No, they aren't the same band as Creatures, they've evolved and "Reincarnated" themselves into their true potential, making a sound distinctly of their own, regardless of what people think or the music trends of current day. MIW is doing something that has needed to be done for a long time, and as every other band sounds more and more redundant and exactly like every other band, this band are taking the first step, not afraid what the crowd thinks, and being music artists as opposed to music "players". Bravo boys, well done. Their albums are getting better and better.

I don't think M.I.W will ever return to the glory days of Creatures, it kills me a little inside, That's in my top 3 Post-Hardcore albums of all time, the Ultimate album and then they just flush themselves down the pan, the past 2 albums have been dire and will be instantly forgotten in less time than you can say "this sucks"